China's economy is continuing to grow despite the global recession, helped by a massive government stimulus package of $585bn.

But doubts remain whether such strong growth can be sustained by public spending alone.

Al Jazeera's Melissa Chan reports from Inner Mongolia, where a whole town built with government money is standing empty.

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As part of an interesting collaboration project, Malibu rum bottles got a re-design by three different magazines. Vice Magazine went with a drippy beach scene, Clark took a minimalist approach with a stark white bottle with a stencil and spray paint set and Shoes Up packaged their sneaker-inspired bottle inside a shoe box.

Dell started Tweeting about two years ago, when the system was pretty new. They don't get into how exactly they traced sales directly back to Tweets, but they're committed to the correlation. So given what they say are $6.5 million in Twitter-driven sales, the company's yearly return from Tweets is around $3.25 million. Dell also notes that its follower list has risen 23% in the last three months alone–which will likely correspond to a hefty skew in the number of PC units sold this year. Dell's Tweets also reach followers in 12 countries, and sales are happening in places that might be a surprise: $800,000 in sales over the last eight months alone came from Brazil.

In total there are 11 doors in the space, all of them fake except for one. Guests can open only one door among eleven doors. The doors have been expressed in three ways, ‘Door’ not connected anywhere, ‘Mirror’ shows the door came off, ‘Concrete’ shows the door buried. The idea is to make imagine that the world they are in ‘exists in doors’

While the concept might seem somewhat strange at first glance, retail rarely challenges consumers to explore space. Rroomm is distinctive in that guests know where they are but the space creates mystery around where they should go.

Prepare yourself for visions of soft waves and vacation skies- Pantone, which is known for it’s almost scientific tracking of color in fashion and home decor trends, has named Turquoise the “color of the year”.

When I had braces … is a collection of pictures of people when they had braces, with a one line caption, because the braces only weren't fun enough…